How hard is to loose 15 pounds??

What are you doing for your workouts? Is it the same routine everyday?

I know for me, I have to switch things up @ least every two weeks. Otherwise my body just gets stuck. Also, when I am doing more strenous strength work, I tend to add more protein. Everyone is different and what works for some doesn't work for others so you have to find what works best for you. Just keep working at it until you find that "thing" that works.

Oh! So one other thing...have you considered (or do you already) take supplements for nutritional augmentation? If there is a deficiency there it would help. I use Spirulina and from time to time I've used Green Coffee bean extract. it's a food that's been proven via research to lower body fat and weight in participants over several weeks even when they don't change exercise or eating habits. it increase metabolism and helps keep glucose levels regulated - both keys in weight management and loss or fitness. Just a thoughts.

I also use Acidopholus for digestion and some herbal supplements just to balance me out. THe foods we eat normally are so depleted of nutrition that it helps you know?

Okay - enough babbling...

These are the macros I switched to a week ago...

1545cals/day
Carb 135g
Fat 60g
Prot 116g

I use to do pretty similar, but on 1700 cals a day... with no results. The nutritionist told me to keep the sugars/ fruit only to the morning... Sometimes I snack on a greek yogurt as the last snack of the day (and also because sometimes I need sthg sweet!)

I weight 138 pounds (in my best days), and my height is 5'5. I don't remember exactly my body fat... but I think is somewhere in between 125-126

so - from this peak, for a few weeks1200-1300 with a mix up of calories throughout the week, plus a drop in carbs to about 100, add in fruit throughout the day (I think limiting to morning is for no good reason at all) remember your body needs glycogen to burn all day. Fruit is a good way to get there. Protein seems okay. 138 is actually pretty good though. Especially if there is muscle mass. Are you sure this isn't some veiled attempt as showing off? :-)

Regards,

Me...(Martin)

Make sure you diary is set to 1/2lb per week and you should aim for 50-75% of your exercise calories. The last 10-20 lbs take a long time. Also, if you have started weight training, you need to.

thanks!

Yes, I do cardio 4 times a week, and weight train 3 times a week (I do them the same day). I´s definitely stronger, and definitely feel great about it... I know my beatiful muscles are hidding below my last pounds

Try to do one or the other. Mixing heavy cardio and strength training can lead a body competing for resources when repairing.

Btw, you are at a healthy weight so you should concentrate on cutting fat which means heavy lifting (max 6-8 reps). Why dont you try a program like strong lift 5x5 3 days a week and do 1 day of cardio. 1600-1700 calories if a healthy range for you as well.

These are the macros I switched to a week ago...

1545cals/day
Carb 135g
Fat 60g
Prot 116g

I use to do pretty similar, but on 1700 cals a day... with no results. The nutritionist told me to keep the sugars/ fruit only to the morning... Sometimes I snack on a greek yogurt as the last snack of the day (and also because sometimes I need sthg sweet!)

I weight 138 pounds (in my best days), and my height is 5'5. I don't remember exactly my body fat... but I think is somewhere in between 125-126

so - from this peak, for a few weeks1200-1300 with a mix up of calories throughout the week, plus a drop in carbs to about 100, add in fruit throughout the day (I think limiting to morning is for no good reason at all) remember your body needs glycogen to burn all day. Fruit is a good way to get there. Protein seems okay. 138 is actually pretty good though. Especially if there is muscle mass. Are you sure this isn't some veiled attempt as showing off? :-)

Regards,

Me...(Martin)

Ha! No :-) actually, I know it is good, but my problem is that I store my fat in very localized places... so, it would be perfect if it was spread all over the body, but it is all in my hips... which honestly makes me look/ feel fat :-(
I'll try your advice!
About the sugars, the nutritionist explained me that the reason to keep fruits to the morning is because that would keep my sugar in blood at a constant level, avoiding spikes which would make me crave more sugar (sthg like that as far as I remember)

Re: sugars...I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but perhaps that's the problem with the advice you got from the nutrionalist. Everything I've heard from doctors to trainers, to everything I've read (and in my personal experience) says sugar spikes have only to do with the type of index the food you have eats, plus your bodies ability to absorb, PLUS the "accoutrements" you eat as well. That is...sustaining regulated blood sugar throughout the day in vital to health. And that does NOT mean cutting out fruits throughout the day, say, in particular. Even with Diabetic conditions, things like bananas are permissible beyond morning. And that is in a much more toxic environment that you have...

1. eat sugars throughout the day with low glycemic index (fruits or otherwise - some fruits are very very low so that makes the advice about mornings only a bit false)
2. Make sure sugars are naturally occurring, not added. The added sugars are the troubling part.
3. Your body has a natural insulin response based on your body fat, your muscle mass and the index of food, plus the other things rolling around in you so...
4. Make sure your diet contains natural response mechanisms for blood sugar regulation such as Stevia (from the root - not the cheap stuff grocers sell), cinnamon, Apple Cider vinegar, Pickles, proteins, foods such as Quinoa and beans, things like that.
5. The fact is you can eat throughout the day fruit, veggies or whatever and spikes won't affect you since your body desires sugar for burns throughout the day. That may be the thing holding you back. Your starving your body of the glycogen it needs for proper metabolism and burn during workouts so it stores the fat as a cautionary step.

Make sense. Be warned...I'm not a doctor, nor a nutritionaist. I only have dealt with blood sugar stuff expensively for a while and run around with many many trainers, nutrionalists and such in a pretty tight health and fitness circle. As they say - it's not what you know, it's who you know and who they know. :-)